My Personal Statement On My Life

Leadership is all about having the right amount of heart and determination to help make a difference in someone’s life. It takes certain qualities to be considered a good leader. A leader should want to help inspire others to make a change and to be the best that they can be. A true leader does not need to feel powerful, instead they empower those around them. Throughout my life I have come across various leaders who have made an impact on my life. It takes a very special person to inspire and touch people’s lives. Leadership is so much deeper than having power and bossing people around.

According to Webster’s Dictionary, leadership is the power or ability to lead other people, the act or instance of leading. I believe that Leadership is an art, the art to get others to follow and accomplish a common goal or task in a harmonic manner. A leader can be shown in all kinds of shapes and forms. To be a great leader many people believe it consists of modeling the way, inspiring a shared vision, enabling others to act, and encouraging the heart. Over the course of me learning how to become a better leader and being in leadership roles, I’ve learned that all these are very necessary to be a great leader.

Leadership isn't for the faint of heart. There is a lot of responsibility involved. Plus, the success or failure of the work falls on the leader's shoulders. If a project or event was successful, the leader is praised. If the project was a failure, the leader is often viewed as a failure. If you're the leader of a company or would like to become a leader, it's best to know yourself well and identify who you are outside of the work you do. Otherwise, you run the risk of attaching your self-esteem to an organism that's forever-changing and inconsistent. In order to be the best leader you can be, implement these nine tips.

My idea of leadership is being able to inspire others, motivate, set a vision, communicate, respect others, and of course, lead by example. A leader must have an honest understanding of who they are, what they know, and what they are capable of. To be a successful leader, you have to be able to convince your followers, not just yourself or your superiors, that you are worthy of being followed. In my opinion, this can build confidence in their followers to have faith in you, in order to be able to lead. I strongly believe that good leaders are made rather, and not born. If you have the desire and willpower, you can become an effective leader. Good leaders are developed through a never ending process of self-study, education, training, and

Abraham Lincoln once said, “Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it is true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition, is yet to be developed. ”Leadership is about the ambition of establishing a positive direction on wanting to influence individuals to work towards a goal. That builds trust between a leader and his/her followers which then obtains a foundation of inspiration, motivation, empowerment, and so on.

When I first moved to the United States, one of the things that confused me the most about Americans was their apparent lack of hospitality. It was almost astounding the way our neighbors were so inhospitable to those around them. They did not converse with anyone on the block nor did they give out the feeling of wanting to converse with anyone. The only friendly people there were the Filipino families next to our house and the one four houses down from ours. I loved my culture because as a kid, I grew up being taught to respect everyone around you and always be kind and caring. It was taught to me by my grandparents, my parents, my teachers, and my peers. The Filipino sense of hospitality is, in my opinion, one the the best things in the

I was born in a military hospital in Wurzburg, Germany. My father was a captain in the U.S. Army and my mother was a homemaker. I spent the first several years of my life living on an American military base, and attending German schools. My brother and I had many friends both native to Germany, and from the U.S. My father was often deployed; so many times it was just the three of us. My mother was very active in our lives, teaching us to ride bikes, taking us to school plays, and reading to us at night.

My grandfather used to say, "Always thinking of your country before anything else; people come and go but the country stays." I understood what he meant, even as a child. He did not mean that people are unimportant; far from it. What he meant was that the people are only as strong as their country, culture, and nation. Contributing to the culture, as an aggregate of collective artifacts such as ceremonies, art, and music, has greater value than anything else I can. Thinking of my country first impacts all Kuwaiti people and not just those that I meet or work with.

In my past I was constantly striving for achievements, whether it was school, music, or good deeds in general, I wanted to be the best and stand out. This was not because those things gave me a sense of personal satisfaction, but rather it was because I wanted to finally be good enough for my dad to be proud of me or for my mom to take an actual personal interest in who I was and not what I could provide for her. By the time I had moved across the country to go to college and to, frankly, begin writing a new chapter in my life, I could name this struggle and recognize situations that would perpetuate this struggle. But by then the cycle had been set in motion. I have just recently come to a point in my life where I am more likely to not be as ashamed or self-defeating if I do not succeed or sacrifice as much as I used to. However, with that said, there are still areas in my life that would benefit from change and growth. I would like to be able to feel fulfilled in life and not have that fulfillment come from feeling like I have to constantly please others. I would also like to be able to better deal with the pressures of life before I send myself spiraling into a whirlwind of bad thoughts or seasons of depression. I most definitely believe that these goals can be brought about by personal change and counseling.

That day I chose to stay and support this woman in birth rather than pick my son up school and take him to the fair. Instead, my husband picked him up from After School Care at 6pm and took him to the fair. I got home that night following this particularly long shift to find my son laying on the floor by the front door waiting for me. I will never know if I made the right decision or the wrong decision but I feel guilty. This situation was also an inconvenience for my husband as he had to leave work early at short notice to pick our son up from school. This memory plays on my mind and I feel like I put the needs of the woman and my academic needs before the needs of my 8 year old son and my husband.

“He didn 't want you.” my mother whispered. “He did not want you then and he does not want you now.” The words rang inside my ears and lingered there for what felt like an eternity. Is it possible for the man that created me to despise me so much that he wanted me dead or wanted nothing to do with me? I felt hurt, unwanted, and like I could never be complete without my father in my life, little did I know I would learn one of the greatest lessons; that all I would ever need to be complete was my mother.

After my sister left for college my mom made everything I did her business. I couldn’t do anything without her being one foot behind me asking what I was doing. And during my junior year she constantly did this to me and I almost killed myself. She thought of me as the actual child of god.

The obvious element that adds to my identity is that I am a female, long hair, voice, and I wear makeup. I feel like it is also obvious that I have anxiety. I tend to exhibit a lot of anxious actions and I believe that is pretty easy for people to spot out.

When i was younger my parents wanted me to not work until i was done with high school. At that time i was totally with them. I had it clear in my head that i wasn 't going to work till i was eighteen. Every time i needed money i had it because of my parents. My mom always wanted me to focus on school and school to be my only priority. I told them i was totally okay with that because i also thought that if i worked and went to school i wouldn 't do good in school. As the youngest child my parents expected more from me and wanted me to always do my best. They wanted a good feature for me and so did i. But, as time went on and i evaluated myself of who i wanted to be and how i wanted to become and i took a big decision.

It crazy how a minute detail can change the entire outcome a situation. Life has many hardships, I for one believe that it is these hardships that shapes us into what we are today. I was about ten years old but had the mentality of a four year old boy. Mostly cried when I was denied a toy or grounded for being mischievous. Like every other week I would grind my way into emotionally blackmailing my parents to allow me to go to my friends place and then go the extra mile to stay as long as possible.